For this issue we again get 4 stories,a few pin ups,and a poster.
We start off with a story reprinted from Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #3. Written by Erica David and pencils by Patrick Scherberger.Picking up were issue 2 left off. Spidey is without his powers and surrounded by 6 of his foes. Spidey manages to run off and hide. And we cut to J Jonah Jameson and Aunt May. They are tied back to back. And May gets on JJ's case. Cause he is such an asshole. We go back to Spidey and he is surround by mirrors and facing Mysterio.But since he doesn't have his powers he can't tell which one is really Mysterio.But Spidey uses his brain and figures out which one is the real deal. He deals with Mysterio and heads off into another part of the warehouse.He is confronted by Kraven. It seems Spidey's powers have come back.And Spidey outwits Kraven and gets Kraven to step into one of his own traps.Next Spidey runs into Electro and Sandman,but again he manages to outwit them. Not that outwitting Sandman is that tough. Well it ends up being Spidey vs Doc Ock and of course Spidey wins. This was a fun little story and a nice updating of the original Sinister Six storyline from the 60's.
Next up is a story from Spider-Man and Power Pack #3. Spidey sends the Power Pack VIP tickets to New York Fashion week. We find out that Spidey got these tickets from Mary Jane. Not sure if this story is set before he was married to her or not.We flashback to 6 months ago. And the lead designer of Fashion week is leaving a store with some fabric. But he runs into Venom. Well Spidey and Human Torch show up to fight Venom. And defeat him by using a sonic blaster. As Eddie Brock is being hauled off to the Vault,we see the designer hiding in an alley. And parts of the Venom costume are laying by him.We got back the present day and the designer has used the alien symbiotic costume from Venom to design his newest outfits. All is well tell someone mentions that Peter Parker is there taking pictures. Well this causes the alien symbiotic to take control of four of the models. And it is up to Spidey and the Power Pack to defeat them.At the end of story all seems to be well,but we see that part of the alien symbiotic is now attached to Katie Power's super hero costume. This was another great team up between Spidey and the Power Pack.
The third story is from Spider-Man Team Up #3. Written by Todd Dezago and pencils by Lou Kang.Spidey is out on patrol when he sees a AIM agent come flying out a window.He goes inside to investigate and sees Captain America inside fighting off a slew of AIM agents. It seems that this is the first time Spidey has met Cap. They defeat the AIM agents and Cap tells Spidey he has to head out. Well of course Spidey tails Cap. Caps knows he is being followed and reveals to Spidey that AIM is working with the Grey Gargoyle.We get a great battle between Spidey and Cap vs AIM agents and Grey Gargoyle. This is like all the good issues of the old Marvel Team Up or Marvel Two-in-One issues. In that you get a fun story in which two heroes team up to defeat a villain. The artwork has a kind of manga look to it that I enjoyed.
The last story is from Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four #3.Written by Jeff Parker and pencils by Mike Wieringo.Some alien insects are attacking the Baxter Building. The Thing ,Human Torch and Spidey keep them busy while Sue Storm tries to get in contact with the High Evolutionary.She figures he might be able to help remove the aliens from the humans they have infected. Well she calls him and gets no answer. So her and the three guys travel to High Evolutionary's mountain fortress. There they are given a weapon that might be able to stop the alien forces. But Spidey has no idea how it works. So he proposes they go to Doctor Doom. And they manage to con Doom into explaining how the weapon works and making some duplicates of it.We go see what Reed is up too. It seems that some far only one planet these aliens have invaded have managed to stop them. And they did it by blowing their own planet.
The stand outs in this issue was the Power Pack story and the Captain America team up.Outta the three issues this is the best one so far. Spider-Man Magazine #3 gets a A.